Strategic Operations Subject Matter Expert (SME) with Security Clearance

About the role

Lead capability identification, mapping, and analysis activities to establish portfolio visibility, identify capability gaps, and inform strategic decisions.

Serve as a strategic integrator across PM MBCT functional areas to ensure alignment of priorities, initiatives, resources, and outcomes.

Career focus on governance and executive management, stakeholder engagement and organizational coordination, process improvement and organizational effectiveness, executive communications and decision support.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and institutionalize governance frameworks, decision-making processes, organizational battle rhythms, and executive oversight mechanisms.
• Establish and support governance boards, councils, integrated product teams, working groups, and review forums to synchronize activities and drive organizational priorities.
• Draft and maintain governance charters, strategic plans, policies, standard operating procedures (SOPs), executive communications, and decision-support documentation.
• Monitor strategic initiatives, executive action items, and organizational objectives to ensure accountability, continuity, and timely execution.
• Facilitate coordination among government personnel, contractors, external stakeholders, and mission partners to promote unity of effort across the portfolio.
• Coordinate with technical, functional, and operational stakeholders to translate leadership priorities into executable requirements, initiatives, milestones, and tracking mechanisms.
• Develop stakeholder engagement strategies and communication plans to support organizational objectives and transformation efforts.
• Analyze organizational processes and workflows to identify inefficiencies, gaps, and opportunities for improvement.
• Recommend and implement process enhancements that strengthen transparency, operational effectiveness, and cross-functional integration.
• Support organizational change management initiatives through governance development, implementation frameworks, and stakeholder engagement activities.
• Develop executive-level briefings, information papers, decision papers, white papers, and strategic communications for senior leadership.
• Design and maintain portfolio management dashboards, reporting tools, metrics, and visualization products that provide leadership insight into capabilities, initiatives, dependencies, risks, and performance.
• Prepare leadership for governance reviews, strategic engagements, and executive decision forums.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in business administration, Organizational Leadership, Management, Public Administration, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience supporting DoD, Army, acquisition, modernization, program management, or strategic operations organizations.
• Demonstrated experience developing and implementing governance frameworks, strategic plans, and executive decision-making processes.
• Experience supporting senior executive leaders, General Officers, SES personnel, or equivalent leadership teams.
• Strong knowledge of Army acquisition, modernization, portfolio management, and organizational operations.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with experience producing executive-level products.
• Ability to facilitate cross-functional collaboration among technical, operational, and organizational stakeholders.
• Active Secret security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Business Administration, Strategic Studies, Organizational Leadership, Public Administration, Systems Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Experience supporting PEO C3N, PEO IEW&S, PEO Digital, PM Mission Command, PM Tactical Network, PM C5ISR, or related Army modernization organizations.
• Knowledge of Army governance processes, capability development, requirements management, and portfolio management practices.
• PMP, DAWIA/Back-to-Basics certification, Lean Six Sigma, Prosci Change Management, or related professional certification.
• Active Top Secret clearance.

Benefits

We offer a competitive benefits package, covering the cost of medical for you and your family; we also offer dental, vision, health and wellness benefits and a generous retirement savings plan. We believe that our employees can manage their workload and their personal life, therefore we extend a generous PTO policy.